Note: The 8-string guitar will not be featured on the album, it's all six strings.

Cool, cool, cool!

These guys have yet to put out an album that wasn't great. Hyped.

I didn't really get behind the last one, but they showed promise.

Written by flightoficarus on 07.05.2015 at 20:01

I didn't really get behind the last one, but they showed promise.

Promise?! Do you want to die?!

Written by LeKiwi on 07.05.2015 at 22:20

Promise?! Do you want to die?!

I just didn't see what was so special about it. The musicianship is there, the personality not so much. I'll give it another try I guess. Slim pickin's right now anyways.

EDIT: Ohmahgerd...first song and already ruthlessly bored. Time has not helped to change my impression so far.

Written by flightoficarus on 07.05.2015 at 22:35

I just didn't see what was so special about it. The musicianship is there, the personality not so much. I'll give it another try I guess. Slim pickin's right now anyways.

EDIT: Ohmahgerd...first song and already ruthlessly bored. Time has not helped to change my impression so far.

Well - given that Be'lakor is far from generic in that no melodeath band comes close to their unique style - it must just not be for you. What did you think of their previous albums?

Written by LeKiwi on 07.05.2015 at 22:56

Well - given that Be'lakor is far from generic in that no melodeath band comes close to their unique style - it must just not be for you. What did you think of their previous albums?

Didn't care for them. I have a similarly unpopular opinion about Insomnium.

Waiting, been a long time for the fanbase

Written by flightoficarus on 07.05.2015 at 23:10

Didn't care for them. I have a similarly unpopular opinion about Insomnium.

Wouldn't bother with their new album then...it's not going to offer anything interesting to you

For the love of God please do something different! Band is getting stale!

Written by deadone on 08.05.2015 at 19:55


My thoughts too amigo

This is a band that seriously needs to understand the concept of dynamics.

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I have a similarly unpopular opinion about Insomnium.

I have those same opinions.

I think the key to liking this band (and Insomnium for that matter) is getting onto their wavelength - getting 'into' their gloomy-dark soundscape. Once you're in there the rhythms will penetrate you deeper, if you can't make it in there you're going to have a bad time.

Written by deadone on 08.05.2015 at 19:55

This is a band that seriously needs to understand the concept of dynamics.

I hope you don't mean dynamics as per its musical definition, because then you'd be very wrong. I'm listening through Stone's Reach right now and there are dynamics changes everywhere.

Written by deadone on 11.05.2015 at 02:31

Yes I meant dynamics as variation in the music and having peaks and trough etc etc.

Here's what dynamics in music exactly means. "The Dream and the Waking", from 6:39 to the end. Guitars go from piano to forte, and the whole thing is obviously a crescendo.



I could've picked an example from "Abeyance", from "In Parting". The list goes on.

Written by Risto on 11.05.2015 at 11:29

Here's what dynamics in music exactly means.

Yeah honestly all it takes is a quick listen to this band and it is clear that they not only "understand" but frequently make use of dynamics. His comment was just an utterly wrong, pseudo-intellectual assertion based off of no evidence.

Written by Risto on 11.05.2015 at 11:29

Written by deadone on 11.05.2015 at 02:31

Yes I meant dynamics as variation in the music and having peaks and trough etc etc.

Here's what dynamics in music exactly means. "The Dream and the Waking", from 6:39 to the end. Guitars go from piano to forte, and the whole thing is obviously a crescendo.



I could've picked an example from "Abeyance", from "In Parting". The list goes on.

Sorry, but I think that crescendo sounds so uninspired and lazily written as possible, it almost cannot be called a crescendo. I wanted to like Be'lakor as sometimes the word "progressive" is slapped on to them but find it hard because stuff like this. Take Opeth's Baying of the Hounds for example, that rise from 3:25 to 6:25 takes many layers and different sort of passages to reach its peak, rather than a 3-step program as displayed in your example. The sort of "enter acoustic/clean guitar and explode into growls" can be found in any melodeath record, and that's why I've always been disappointed with Be'lakor.

Eh, I can hear creative inspiration in that, to each their own. Speaking of crescendos though, here is one of my all-time favourite.

Written by Timmeh on 12.05.2015 at 01:45

Eh, I can hear creative inspiration in that, to each their own. Speaking of crescendos though, here is one of my all-time favourite.

Judging by the contrast, you probably can hear creative inspiration in pretty much everything.